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The Great Mirror of Male Love (็ท่ฒๅคง้ก) by Ihara Saikaku was the definitive work on the subject of "male love" in Tokugawa Era Japan. Was written by a Buddhist monk
Tokugawa commentators felt free to illustrate kami engaging in anal sex with each other. During the Tokugawa period, some of the Shinto gods, especially Hachiman, Myoshin, Shinmei and Tenjin, "came to be seen as guardian deities of nanshoku" (maleโmale love). Tokugawa-era writer Ihara Saikaku joked that since there are no women for the first three generations in the genealogy of the gods found in the Nihon Shoki, the gods must have enjoyed homosexual relationshipsโwhich Saikaku argued was the real origin of nanshoku.
In the pre-Meiji period, nanshoku (็ท่ฒ) relationships inside Buddhist monasteries were typically pederastic. The older partner, or nenja (ๅฟต่
, "lover" or "admirer"), would be a monk, priest or abbot, while the younger partner was assumed to be an acolyte (็จๅ
, chigo), who would be a prepubescent or adolescent boy. The relationship would be dissolved once the boy reached adulthood (or left the monastery). Both parties were encouraged to treat the relationship seriously and conduct the affair honorably, and the nenja might be required to write a formal vow of fidelity.
Then there is the fact that the Buddha ever taught all the shit they follow in their version of Buddhism.
